In
a 3 year period the top 30 tax-dogging corporations US profits totaled 163.7
billion, they received a tax refund of $10.6 billion, and their political
donations totaled $475 million. see link to table. Too big to pay taxes.

Today, thousands of 99 Percenters will march on K Street in Washington, D.C. as a part of an action
called “Take Back The Capitol,” taking aim at the lobbying firms that corporate
interests use to influence the federal government.

A report released this month by
Public Campaign demonstrates just how important it is for Americans to battle
corporate special interests and reclaim our democracy. The group’s research
finds that thirty big corporations actually spent more money lobbying the
federal government between 2008 and 2010 than they spent in taxes. For example,
General Electric — one of the top 10 most profitable companies in the world — got a net tax rebate of $4.7 billion during
this period. Meanwhile, it spent $84 million lobbying the federal government. {JK
couldn’t find this report at www.publiccampaign.org.
Site is mainly about limiting corporate
donations}

Here’s the full list of the 30
corporations identified and what they paid in federal taxes as opposed to
lobbying:

To follow
today’s actions, check out Take Back The Capitol’swebsite, and find instant
updates about the protest through the
hashtag#99indc. ThinkProgress
will be covering today’s events at our99 Percent Movementspecial topics page.

For table go to website.

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Another
example of what having a lack of standards does to program writing.

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Show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a pig--Hugh Newton

These
International bankers and Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers
to club into submission or rive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques
which compose the invisible government—Teddy Roosevelt-1913